VISVESVARAYA

imagine that Visvesvaraya is the most cheerless man
that ever sat to pen and paper. Mighty laughs are
too demonstrative for him but the smile of courtesy ever
illumines his hp

Visitors with floral expression of their esteem flock
the magnificent reception room Woe to perambulating
bores if they commit the error of paying their respects
to him. He also does not countenance any exhibition
of curiosity Once he admonished a blue-stocking that
he was not a museum exhibit to be stared in that rude
way. She pleaded short-sight nay admiration.

A young interviewer over-stayed and dunned and
teased him Visvesvaraya in an air of gay fooling
asked him whether or no he was a bachelor. Brighten-
ing up the visitor replied " I am a bachelor from choice
but lately has shown some signs of wavering." Vis-
vesvaraya gave a poke at his nbs when he exclaimed
" keep love in cold storage for lew more years/*

A gentleman who had struck up a cordial acquain-
tance with Mm called on him. He suffocated in his
fatness and would have acted the part of Falstaff with-
out stuffing. He had a majesty in his gait, whan he
walked, not unlike that of a goose but he paced slower.
He incarnated be-always-Mnd-to-aminals spirit. After
surveying this species new to science one would wonder
how it was that for ages men had been content to accept
that there were only seven wonders in this worldL When
that fat fraud saw Visvesvaraya's dtog the top-lifts of
his heart gave way. The town-crier would have envied
his voice. He attempted to speak burl tongue denied
its office. Then with the air of one propounding a